Dupuis

Parent company	Média-Participations (2004–present)
Founded	1922; 103 years ago (1922)
Founder	Jean Dupuis
Country of origin	Belgium
Headquarters location	Marcinelle,Hainaut, Belgium
Distribution	France, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada
Key people	Claude de Saint Vincent
Fiction genres	Comic albums and magazines
Official website	www.dupuis.com

Éditions Dupuis S.A. (French:[dypɥi]) is aBelgian publisher ofcomic albums and magazines.

Based inMarcinelle nearCharleroi, Dupuis is mostly famous for its comicalbums and magazines. Initially a French language publisher, it now publishes numerous editions in both theFrench language andDutch. Other language editions are mostly licensed to other publishers.

Dupuis was founded in 1922 byJean Dupuis (1875–1952).

The growth of Dupuis towards becoming the leading comic book editor of Belgium started in 1938, when Dupuis added to its portfolio a men's magazine (Le moustique [the mosquito] in French,Humoradio in Dutch), a women's magazine (Bonnes Soirées [good evenings] in French,De Haardvriend [the hearth's friend] in Dutch) and the children's comics magazineSpirou.^[1] The latter was originally only in French, and contained a mixture of American comics (e.g.Superman,Brick Bradford, andRed Ryder) and new creations (Spirou et Fantasio andTif et Tondu). A few months later, a Dutch edition calledRobbedoes followed.^[2]

After some difficulties during the war (mainly because of the scarcity of paper towards the end of it, but also because American comics weren't allowed to be published anymore), Dupuis started to grow quickly.Le moustique became one of the leading magazines with information on radio and (later) television programs in Belgium, andSpirou was one of the two leadingFranco-Belgian comics magazines (together withTintin magazine).^[3]

Dupuis started publishing some books as well, but had real success by republishing the comics that had appeared as serials in the magazine, collected asalbums afterwards. Sometimes these wereone shots, but mainly they came in series. Dupuis has some of the best-selling European comic series, includingLucky Luke,The Smurfs,Gaston Lagaffe andLargo Winch.^[4] Many of these comic albums have been reprinted constantly for thirty or forty years, thereby generating constant revenue for the editor.

In the early sixties, Dupuis started with other activities, including the merchandising of its comic series (puppets, posters, etc.), and the making of animated movies. Most of these weren't very successful but further raised the visibility of their comics. Still, towards the end of the 1960s, the golden age of Dupuis seemed to be over. Some of the magazines were struggling, the merchandising activities were vastly reduced, and the movie studio did not seem to be producing any successful movies. But the core business, the comics and the main magazines, continued to be hugely successful, with a comics catalogue of more than 2000 titles available in French. Many of the series were turned into animated movies in the 1990s, includingPapyrus andSpirou et Fantasio, and are being sold as movies and comics throughout Europe. Dupuis has also started producing computer games.

In June 2004, Dupuis was bought byMédia-Participations, which now owns almost all major European comic book publishers, includingDargaud andLe Lombard,^[5] More recently, in 2015, Dupuis joined with twelve other European comics publishing actors to createEurope Comics, a digital initiative co-funded by the European Commission'sCreative Europe program.^[6]

In March 2013, Dupuis who owned a minority stake inMarsu Productions announced that they're buying out and taking full control of publishing house Marsu Productions along with their catalogue, thus bringing their publishing activities and the Marsupilami franchise back to their original publisher Dupuis.^[7]

In January 2019, Dupuis announced that they've launched their first European webtoon production subsidiary and platform dedicated to European and African authors named Webtoon Factory.^[8]

In January 2024, Dupuis announced that their manga publishing imprint Vega Dupuis had joined forces with Japanese manga publishing companyKadokawa to launch a joint venture business named Vega SAS to publish Japanese and Korean comics for the French language markets alongside Kadokawa's own titles which will be their focus with Kadokawa acquiring a 51% stake in Dupuis's imprint Vega Dupuis whilst Dupuis retaining the 49% stake in the imprint.^[9][10]

This is a selection of magazines and comics series originally or mainly published by Dupuis. Some titles later changed to a different publisher.

• Moustique (created as "Moustique" in 1924, named "Télémoustique" between the 1960s and 2011) and its Flemish counterpartHUMO (since 1936, originally called "Humoradio"). Both versions have been sold to other publishers.
• Spirou, since 1938: between 1938 and 2005 also a Flemish version, "Robbedoes".

This is a selected list of comics series, ordered by year of first publication by Dupuis, with main authors given. Many series were also continued or temporarily taken over by other artists and writers. Some of the series have been taken over by other publishers.

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Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Animation
Founded	1965; 60 years ago (1965)
Headquarters	Belgium
Products	Television series Feature films
Parent	Dupuis (1965–2022) Ellipse Animation (2022–present)
Website	www.dupuis.com

Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel is a French/Belgian film & animation audiovisuel production division of the comic book publishing house Dupuis that is dedicated to their adaptations of Dupuis' works into animated series and feature films. It is one of the production labels that is part of Ellipse Animation.^[11]

In 1959, six years before Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel was established, Dupuis had another production house when Dupuis and Charles Dupuis the son of Dupuis' founder Jean Dupuis had launched their own animation studio named TVA Dupuis which became famous for producing their first animated series in black and white based on the popular comic seriesThe Smurfs, which was their first adaptation.

In June 2022, during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel alongside their parent company Dupuis and its ownerMedia Participations brought all of their French animation production labels (which were Dupuis Edition & Audiovisuel,Dargaud Media andEllipsanime Productions alongside their in-house Paris & Angoulême-based animation production studio division Ellipse Studio) under one umbrella group named Ellipse Animation.^[12]

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